RACF Contracts in England

IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for RACF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited RACF over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 486 628 764
Rank change year-on-year +142 +136 -153
Contract jobs citing RACF 50 26 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.052% 0.025%
As % of the System Software category 1.24% 0.40% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 17 6
10th Percentile £430 £533 £466
25th Percentile £463 £550 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +16.50% +14.44%
75th Percentile £699 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £695 £688
UK median daily rate £572 £600 £505
% change year-on-year -4.75% +18.81% -30.34%

All System Software Skills
England

RACF is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,036 6,552 9,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.88% 13.05% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,800 4,752 7,186
10th Percentile £190 £203 £196
25th Percentile £325 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £634
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 210 238 277
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.73 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £75.30 £75.15 £55.18
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.43 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.88% +167.13% -

RACF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing RACF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for RACF in England

RACF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing RACF in England.

Daily rate trend for RACF in England

RACF
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing RACF in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for RACF in England

RACF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing RACF in England.

Hourly rate trend for RACF in England

RACF
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RACF within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +117 28 £683 +13.75% 3
North of England +46 17 £430 -33.85%
Yorkshire +36 17 £430 -18.87%
RACF
UK

RACF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (30.00%) SAS
2 5 (10.00%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.00%) GitHub
2 8 (16.00%) AWS
2 8 (16.00%) Azure
2 8 (16.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) SSL
2 1 (2.00%) SNA
2 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) MySQL
1 17 (34.00%) Oracle Reports
1 17 (34.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) DB2
General
1 24 (48.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Finance
3 10 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 6 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (10.00%) Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Architect
1 13 (26.00%) Programmer
1 13 (26.00%) Systems Programmer
1 13 (26.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 9 (18.00%) SailPoint Engineer
3 8 (16.00%) Developer
3 8 (16.00%) SailPoint Architect
3 8 (16.00%) SailPoint Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Mainframe Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.00%) z/OS Specialist
5 4 (8.00%) CICS Specialist
6 3 (6.00%) Senior
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Developer
7 1 (2.00%) IAM Developer
7 1 (2.00%) Mainframe Specialist
7 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (2.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (50.00%) HTML
1 25 (50.00%) JSP
1 25 (50.00%) LDAP
1 25 (50.00%) SailPoint
1 25 (50.00%) Servlets
1 25 (50.00%) SOAP
1 25 (50.00%) SPML
1 25 (50.00%) XML
2 17 (34.00%) JDBC
2 17 (34.00%) Web Services
3 15 (30.00%) ISPF
4 1 (2.00%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 33 (66.00%) Mainframe
2 17 (34.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 20 (40.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) RBAC
2 15 (30.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 15 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 8 (16.00%) Secrets Management
3 8 (16.00%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (10.00%) Architectural Design
4 5 (10.00%) Security Architecture
4 5 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (8.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (8.00%) Project Management
6 1 (2.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (2.00%) Performance Analysis
6 1 (2.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) Java
1 25 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 24 (48.00%) SQL
3 15 (30.00%) Assembly Language
3 15 (30.00%) JCL
3 15 (30.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (88.00%) ACF2
2 25 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 25 (50.00%) IAG
3 15 (30.00%) Time Sharing Option
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (38.00%) OMEGAMON
2 5 (10.00%) zSecure
Vendors
1 25 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 22 (44.00%) IBM
3 17 (34.00%) Oracle
3 17 (34.00%) Sybase
4 15 (30.00%) Broadcom
4 15 (30.00%) Splunk
5 8 (16.00%) BeyondTrust
5 8 (16.00%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.00%) SunGard
6 1 (2.00%) Teradata